![]() ![]() And, unlike most music biopics that focus on the melodrama of a star’s life, the show is at its best illuminating the band’s musical trajectory. Still, there’s a shamelessly corny charm to the miniseries, which further fleshes out some of the family’s story. ![]() The singer remains the sweet girl who loved her family, defied her dad in order to marry her bandmate, Chris Pérez, and lived for fashion. The new series mostly does stick to that script, at least in the first half. The second part’s release date hasn’t yet been announced.) (The first nine episodes of the miniseries are out today. And pictures of newcomer Christian Serratos looked exactly like Lopez’s Selena, suggesting the miniseries would simply franchise the family-friendly movie into a TV format. When Netflix announced its two-part miniseries Selena: The Series, also produced by Q-Productions last year, I was skeptical that it would add much to what we already know about the singer. Her accompanying band, Los Dinos, was created by her dad and included her drummer sister, Suzette, and producer brother, A.B. It focused not just - or even mostly - on Selena, but on the Quintanilla family’s backstory and journey, which makes sense because the Selena phenomenon wasn’t just about her. That film, like so much of her career, was produced by her father, Abraham Quintanilla (through his Q-Productions). But since her untimely death, the Selena legend has only grown: Her legacy lives on in Univision specials, a museum, academic studies, a makeup line, among next-gen pop stars, and perhaps most memorably in the iconic 1997 film Selena starring Jennifer Lopez. ![]() The singer’s electrifying performance style and sparkly bustiers transformed her from Tejano queen into a Grammy-winning Latinx pop supernova by the early ‘90s.īy 1995, she was on the verge of conquering mainstream pop charts when her fan club president, Yolanda Saldívar, killed her. This year marks a quarter century since Selena’s tragic murder when she was just 23. ![]()
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